The Man Who Conquered Death

Translated by Clifton P. Fadiman and William A. Drake. First edition. 134pp. Hardback in dust jacket. Publisher’s purple cloth boards decorated in black to upper panel and with black lettering and decorations to spine. Jacket with closed tears to folds and small chip to head of spine area; spine sunned. *** Franz Werfel (1890-1945), Prague-born novelist, poet and playwright, best known for his doorstop of a novel The Forty Days of Musa Dagh (1933). Married to Alma Mahler (widow of Gustav Mahler and ex-wife of Walter Gropius) and friend of Franz Kafka and Max Brod.